I personally would have also been fine with using a mix of grid boys and grid girls, but I think it's a good move to make the sport more open to women.
I doubt the loss of a one-weekend gig is gonna make a huge difference
Just because one woman doesn't object, that doesn't mean the practice isn't objectifying of women, of course.
I know someone who's done this exact job in F1, lets not beat around the bush when I say everyone involved knows this.
Not that you or I would actually know since the people directly involved in this didn't get to have much of a say in it.
Does it matter? It's not about what the people evolved want or feel about it. It's about what F1 wants to be and look like.
Oh come on, F1 didn't care about this issue until people brought it up, people who don't even watch the sport but saw it as a social problem they wanted fixed. There's no problem with that but most grid girls seemed to want the practice to continue, or at least have it be reformed or made more relevant rather than axing it completely.
Totally agree with you, my point was that since the subject was brought up and got attention - even if it was by people who don't care about the sport, annoying I know - the owners decided it's better to stop that practice.
Nevermind, burn it down.Mark webber to the rescue
Maybe, I mean cheerleaders are still part of football for the most part but some teams got rid of their cheerleading groups, maybe that's the same deal here.
My understanding about say, the Dallas Cheerleaders, is that they work their asses off and put their lives on hold and they get paid relatively jack shit to do it.
It's hard to break traditions, but look at this new XFL announcement. They don't have them.
Sounds more like shitty parenting, if things like that stick with you and limit your scope.
Until she watches F1 now and sees that women are part of the crew now and sitting at pit walls.
It didn't limit her scope in the referenced case, but it's an unnecessary obstacle for young women generated from a desire to objectify women so... are there arguments for keeping the grid girls around?
Now this, I always thought was classy when I saw them in the Arab states.They had grid girls too, though. They were just fully dressed.
Those are unfortunately still far and few in between. There's only one female team boss and I'd be surprised if more than five percent of senior team members are women, but I have no stats on that.
Since Kaltenborn is gone, the only woman we regularly see is Claire Williams. I can't think of any team that has female mechanics. They usually only do PR related stuff in F1.
Guess what would also be a honest source of work for a bunch of people? Working in Motorsports for more than just walking around as fodder for men to ogle at.
I dont think I've seen any in the actual crew, but more like doing data analyzing on the walls. Mercedes was a team that stood out to me with this but come to think of it, they might be the only one.
What are the chances of a gay F1 driver in a field of 22? Typically 4 % % of the population are gay and that includes women. You'd need at least double the amount of drivers to have any realistic chance of one of them being gay.
